- Docente: Marco Costa
- Credits: 12
- SSD: M-PSI/01
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Marco Costa (Modulo 1) Andrea De Cesarei (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Cesena
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Psychological sciences and techniques (cod. 8774)
Learning outcomes
a) Basic cognitive processes (attention, consciousness, language, comunication, intelligence, motivation, emotion)
b) Theories of personality (trait, biological, phenomenological, behavioral, socio-cognitive theory);
c) comparison between the main cognitive models and theories.
Course contents
Module 1 Dott. Andrea De Cesarei
1) Sensation and Perception (advanced)
2) Attention
3) Stress, health and coping strategies
Module 2 Prof. Marco Costa
4) Stress, health and coping strategies
5) Motivation and emotion
6) Consciousness
7) Personality
8) Intelligence
9) Evolutionary Psychology
Readings/Bibliography
Atkinson & Hilgard’s. Introduzione alla psicologia (16. Edition). Chapters: 5, 13, 14
Passer, Holt, Bremmer, Sutherland, Vliek, Smith (2016). Psicologia Generale. Milano: McGraw Hill chapters 7, 10, 12, 13, 14
Buss, D. M. (2012). Evolutionary psychology. Pearson
Di Giovanni, P. (2007). Psicologia della Comunicazione. Bologna: Zanichelli (capitoli 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons, video and power-point presentations, scientific paper discussion, experiments.
Assessment methods
Attending students can make a dedicated exam the last lesson of the course with open questions (written, 90 min time).
In the official sessions exams will be written with open questions and 90 min time.
Teaching tools
Textbooks, video, online experiments, scientific papers.
Office hours
See the website of Marco Costa
See the website of Andrea De Cesarei